10 minutes before dark

So right at the sunset I thought to myself  … what the heck! … and I grabbed my sticx with a drop shot-rig ready to go … and I walked down to the lake to try my luck!
It’s starting to get dark and on the third cast … and I get slammed by this lil’ two pound LM Bass on the retrieval![You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

TIGHT LINES!
SP Dan    <“))><

SP Dan wrote:So right at the sunset I thought to myself  … what the heck! … and I grabbed my sticx with a drop shot-rig ready to go … and I walked down to the lake to try my luck!
It’s starting to get dark and on the third cast … and I get slammed by this lil’ two pound LM Bass on the retrieval![You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

TIGHT LINES!
SP Dan    <“))><

Nice buddy
Go eat dinner, come back after dark and throw some top water in BLACK

Hey Doc
You are better skilled at FW lakes than I.
Which top water in Blackford you suggest that this grasshopper uses?!

I watched the video Doc,
We don’t have reeds or lily pads or any of that kind of vegetation on our lake.
It’s a man-made lake with a liner on the bottom.
I don’t think these fish have ever seen a frog!
Do you think that it still might work?

SP Dan wrote:I watched the video Doc,
We don’t have reeds or lily pads or any of that kind of vegetation on our lake.
It’s a man-made lake with a liner on the bottom.
I don’t think these fish have ever seen a frog!
Do you think that it still might work?

I think bass will pretty much bite/slam anything that triggers them.

Lake Mission Viejo used to have really picky bass so small and tiny tended to get consistent hits from the schoolies that moved around. I blame the bored pro/Am bass fishermen that hit the lake pretty much every day.

I've fished a horse ranch's catchment ponds that were chock full of bass and perch, and strangely enough the bass really liked a mini pencil popper.

My PB LMB was an accidental catch, it was Spring so I was throwing a small silver popper (or a dogwalker?) near a boulder, and I hit the boulder and the female hit as soon as I did my first pop right at the bottom of the rock.

Wacky seems to work, and I'm not sure why....but I like to throw traditional worms and it usually takes a bit to figure out the size and color that works at a particular section of a lake but smaller is usually better.

The traditional frog shaped pork skin seems to produce also...YMMV.

I'm not a bass fisherman, I have just been around some and fish for bass when it's too warm for anything else...I just set the hook hard when I get hit...

SP Dan wrote:I watched the video Doc,
We don’t have reeds or lily pads or any of that kind of vegetation on our lake.
It’s a man-made lake with a liner on the bottom.
I don’t think these fish have ever seen a frog!
Do you think that it still might work?

I see.
I fish a similar man made lake on a certain golf course pond  near San Diego where night fishing is a blast as long as you avoid the sprinklers.  

Just cast up to dry land and walk then  puppy along the shoreline. Bass are just waiting for critters to fall in.
The daytime bite is not bad as well….[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Another super good lure here is the 3/8 oz Dark Sleeper.
Doc first turned me onto it when we were fishing in the LA Harbor area together.